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Tiger Aspect adds Kemp, Blatt to Dog Eat Dog cast
Pop stars Gary Kemp and Melanie Blatt have joined TV actor Alan Davies in UK comedy Dog Eat Dog.The FilmFour-backed production has just started shooting for Tiger Aspect Pictures and Shona Productions for six weeks in and around London. Kemp and Blatt have starred in The Krays and Honest respectively, ...
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Sundance favourite Quinceanera lands at SPC
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has picked-up North American andLatin American rights to the double Sundance winner Quinceanera directed by Richard Glatzer and WashWestmoreland.The coming-of-age story chartsthe ups and downs of an East LA girl as she approaches her fifteenth birthdaycelebrations while juggling concerns about her boyfriend, pregnancy and hertroubled cousin. ...
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Brodlie, Stier swell ranks at Paramount specialty division
Matt Brodlie has been named senior vice president of production andacquisitions and Geoff Stier senior vice president of production anddevelopment at Paramount's fast-expanding specialty division.Brodlie, who joins from TriStar Pictures, and former producerStier will both report to executive vice president of production andacquisitions Amy Israel."I am thrilled that we were ...
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Accused, Life In Colour take top prizes at Miami
The Miami International Film Festival concluded on Saturday nightwith the announcement of three juried awards offering cash sums of $25,000each. Presentations were made at a closing ceremony introduced by festivaldirector Nicole Guillemet and hosted by actors Alice Braga and Jose Antonio.Life In Colour from Spain's Santiago Tabernero won the top ...
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Failure is anything but at domestic box office
Paramount's romantic comedy Failure To Launch was anything but a failure in itsopening weekend, soaring to number one on an estimated $24.6m weekend haul.Buena Vista's comedy The Shaggy Dog - the picture that had beenexpected to dominate the weekend - opened in second place on $16m,marginally ahead of Fox Searchlight's ...
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Panther steals $9.2m for Fox, while Narnia powers on
The Pink Panther was the number one international picture of the weekend thanks toa raft of major market launches through Fox International that generated anestimated $9.2m.The comedy remake now stands at $30m. It opened top in Germany andAustria on $2.1m from 540 screens and $510,000 from 60 respectively.France generated $1.4m ...
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Aardman's double triumph at European animation awards
TheUK's Aardman Animations scored a double triumph by taking home two of theCartoon Movie Tributes voted on by representatives of the European animationindustry attending this year's co-production forum at the Babelsberg Studiosfrom March 9-11.Thefilmmaking duo Nick Park and Steve Box were named Best European Director of theYear for Wallace & ...
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Im's Thousand Year Crane cranks up with Prime backing
Korean maestro ImKwon-taek's 100th film has started production with backing from start-up studioPrime Entertainment which is contributing 40% of the $3.8m budget and willdistribute the film. In addition, producer Kino2officially announced Cho Jae-hyun, whose credits include Kim Ki-duk's Bad Guy, as the male lead.Im's Cheon-nyun-hak, which translates literally as One ...
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Six titles chosen for Films in Progress financing initiative
The Films in Progresscompletion financing initiative of the Latin American Film Festival of Toulouseand the Donostia-San Sebastian International FilmFestival has announced the six titles participating in the upcoming 9thedition March 23-24 in Toulouse.The films, chosen from 67entries from across Latin America and Spain, will screen for companies and festivals whichcould ...
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You And Me (Toi Et Moi)
Dir: Julie Lopes Curval.Fr. 2006. 94mins.Writer-director Julie Lopes Curvalleapt into the front rank of promising Gallic auteur talent with her debutfeature, Seaside (Bord De Mer), a dramatic ensemble piece setin a once-fashionable seaside resort town, which won the prestigious Camera d'Or at Cannes in 2002. Three years on, she now ...
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UK's First Light launches new competition in North East
FirstLight, the UK Film Council's youth filmmaking scheme, has started a newcompetition in the North East. The Futures in Motion competition will be opento 170 schools and 43 youth groups.Studentswill submit a short film proposal about how Lottery funding has impacted theircommunity. The winning group will work with film and ...
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Ambush wins Gold Dolphin at Festroia
Finnish drama Ambush, set during the Second World War, won the 16th Festroia film festival's top honour, the Gold Dolphin, on Saturday night. The film also won the best director award for Olli Saarela. The international jury, presided over by Spanish director Juan Antonio Bardem, gave its Special Prize to ...
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Yu named LA-based director of acquisitions at Cinemavault
Robert C Yu has joinedToronto-based Cinemavault Releasing International as director of acquisitions.Yu, who will work out ofLos Angeles, previously served as vice president at law firm and producers repTulchin Entertainment.Prior to that he workedas sales coordinator at Alliance Atlantis and began his career as assistant tothe president of Paramount Classics.'It's ...
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Matzner's Dreamland to open 11th Gen Art in New York
Jason Matzner's familydrama Dreamland and Gregg Kavet and AndyRobin's crime caper Live Free Or Diebookend the 11th Gen Art Film Festival, which runs from Apr 5-11 in New YorkCity.For the first time thefestival will honour a festival breakout talent with the juried Stargazer Awardfor excellence in acting.The award joins the ...
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MPAA, NATO launch theatre employee training programme
The Motion PictureAssociation of America (MPAA) has stepped up its anti-piracy campaign on theeve of ShoWest, teaming up with the National Association of Theatre Owners(NATO) and its Canadian counterparts to launch an online theatre employeetraining programme.FightFilmTheft.org isalso supported by the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association (CMPDA)and The Motion Picture Theatre ...
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Almodovar's Volver gets warm reception in Madrid
Pedro Almodovar has submitted his muchanticipated new film, Volver, forcompetition at Cannes."The selectors have seenit and I understand they liked it, and we will have an answer from them inApril," Almodovar said.The director openedCannes in 2004 with his last film, Bad Education (La Mala Educacion), and wonbest director honours in ...
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Vallee's C.R.A.Z.Y. sweeps the board at the Genies
Itmay not have landed a foreign-language Oscar nomination but Quebecois title C.R.A.Z.Y.has more than compensated at home. TheFrench-language drama, the story of a young man's acceptance of hishomosexuality in a loving if oppressively heterosexual family, swept Canada'sGenie Awards on Monday, winning ten prizes out of 12 nominations, includingbest motion picture ...
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Tribeca announces 33 projects in All Access Connects programme
The Tribeca Film Institute has announced the 33 winning projectsfor this year's Tribeca All Access Connects programme.The programme was set up to foster stronger relations betweenUS-based filmmakers of colour and industry executives.To facilitate this, organisers have arranged approximately 500meetings with representatives from more than 100 companies during the festivalfrom May ...
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Exhibitors and distributors face new challenges, says Glickman
ShoWest, the annualconvention of film exhibition, got underway today in Las Vegas with itstraditional Monday emphasis on the international marketplace. Since 2000, theevent has sought to erase global borders in its participation and this yearattracted delegates from 50 nations with major increases in participation fromRussia and Asian countries. Korea's Lotte ...
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Sofia Meetings co-production forum unveils line-up
Tensecond feature film projects have been selected for this year's third editionof the Sofia Meetings co-production forum (March 17-18). During the two day event,filmmakers will have an opportunity to pitch to more than 50 internationalproducers and film funds.The line-upincludes three filmmakers who have films screening in Sofia International Filmfestival's International ...